91.5 · THE PROGRAMME GUIDE
Here's what's on tonight.
Ten short reads on live radio online: which apps deserve your evening, how a broadcast you cannot speak becomes one you can read, and how to keep ads and trackers off your dial. I wrote them straight and kept them short. The radio plays either way.
Listen to radio from other countries
Three free ways I tune in to radio from abroad: a country page in your browser, a globe you spin, and a road trip across borders. Plus why some stations will not play.
SwitchingA Radio Garden alternative for iPhone
Both put live radio on a globe. A fair side-by-side: what is the same, what Radio Dad adds, and who should keep Radio Garden.
LanguagesLearn a language with foreign radio
Fifteen minutes a day with a news station in the language you are learning, captions and a translation side by side. A simple routine, and what does not work.
ComparisonThe best internet radio apps in 2026
I lined up six of them: Radio Dad, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Radio Garden, Simple Radio and myTuner. Which are honestly ad-free, which hand you a globe, and which can caption a station you do not speak. I ranked my own show too. Fairly, I think.
DevicesRadio on iPad
The same spin-to-tune globe on a bigger screen, and what the iPad adds: two-column dashboards, real multitasking, radio on while you work.
CaptionsRadio with live captions and translation
Follow a broadcast in a language you do not speak. How captions and real-time translation run on your device, and what the world sounds like written down.
SwitchingA free TuneIn alternative for iPhone
Tired of sitting through an advert to hear the radio? A side-by-side look at Radio Dad against TuneIn and iHeartRadio, and why people move over.
Buying guideThe best radio app for iPhone
What actually matters in a radio app: discovery, sound, privacy, CarPlay, price. A checklist for choosing, from a man with opinions on the subject.
PrivacyA private, ad-free radio app
Most radio apps run ads, want an account, and carry trackers. Radio needs none of that. Here is how mine works without it.
In the carThe best CarPlay radio app
What a radio app owes you in the car, plus a free Driving Mode for everyone without CarPlay. Big buttons. Eyes on the road.
RATHER JUST LISTEN?
Skip the reading.
Pick a country or a genre and listen free in your browser. No app, no account. I will keep the transmitter warm.